{"id":1928799,"date":"2026-08-20T15:17:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T19:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1928799"},"modified":"2026-08-20T16:13:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:13:56","slug":"nc-state-football-2026-position-preview-runningbacks-can-duke-carry-the-load-how-does-gause-fit-in-and-what-about-paylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1928799","title":{"rendered":"NC State Football 2026 Position Preview: Runningbacks | Can Duke carry the load? How does Gause fit in? And what about Paylor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re continuing our position-by-position previews of NC State\u2019s 2026 football roster with a look at the running backs. If you missed our quarterback preview, go check that out. A good place to start is what was lost from last year\u2019s team. The Big Loss: Hollywood Smothers Only the first-team All-ACC running back from last season, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/packinsider.com\/2026\/08\/20\/nc-state-football-2026-position-preview-runningbacks-can-duke-carry-the-load-how-does-gause-fit-in-and-what-about-paylor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re continuing our position-by-position previews of NC State\u2019s 2026 football roster with a look at the running backs. If you missed our quarterback preview, go check&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1928799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928800,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928799\/revisions\/1928800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}